Physics
Scientific paper
May 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agusm.u22a..01h&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2002, abstract #U22A-01
Physics
6205 Asteroids And Meteoroids, 7219 Nuclear Explosion Seismology
Scientific paper
On March 20, 1995 the Aum Shinrikyo terrorist group staged a sarin gas attack in the Tokyo Subway system in Japan that killed 12 and injured 5,000 people. Following the subway attack, the U.S. Senate initiated an investigation into the activities of this previously little known yet powerful religious cult. As part of the investigation, the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations requested the IRIS consortium to determine the nature of a seismic event that occurred in 1993 in a remote part of western Australia, where members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult had been trying to mine uranium and had carried out tests with chemical weapons. The time and location of the seismic event coincided with eyewitness accounts of a low flying, bright object and a large explosion. The analysis of seismic data suggests that the magnitude 3.6 event occurred with a force of up to 2,000 tons of high explosive equivalent, but was unlikely to be an explosive detonation. However, the observations and data could be consistent with the impact of an approximately 3 to 4 meter wide iron meteorite, an event that can be expected to occur on land about every 30 years.
Harvey David
Hennet C. B.
van der Vink G. E.
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